Flora WOLF (b. 26 Mar. 1868 Eisenstadt, d. 31 Mar. 1920 Vienna)
married (14 Mar. 1888) to Joseph BRAUN
(b. 25 July 1855 Cziffer, d. 31 Aug. 1929 Vienna). [Joseph
BRAUN had several famous cousins:
(i) One
of his cousins married the Grand Duke of Lichtenstein, but she died
without issue.
Another cousin was Victor ADLER (1852-1918) the founder of the
Austrian Social Democratic Party. He was a prominent figure in the
international labor movement. He was a physician by profession. He was a
member of the Austrian parliament from 1905 to 1918 and foreign minister
in the Socialist government of 1918. His bust is still standing in front
of the Austrian Parliament building in Vienna. Victor ADLER’s son, Friedrich
ADLER (1879-1960) a prominent figure in the Austrian labour movement
and secretary of the Socialist International. He committed a political
assassination in 21.10.1916. He killed Count STURGKH, the prime minister.
Heinrich BRAUN
(1854-1927)
and his wife Lilly were Josi’s cousins as well.Lilly
was the daughter of General VON KRETSCHMAN and a descendant from Napoleon Bonaparte's
brother, Jerome BONAPARTE, the ruler of Westphalia. Lilly
was an author and Heinrich was one of the founders of the periodical of
the German Social Democrats, "Neue Zeit" in 1883. Their
son, Otto BRAUN, an extremely talented writer was killed in World War I.
(iv)
Heinrich's brother was Adolf BRAUN (1862-1929) a German socialist
leader who was active in the Social Democratic Party for more than 40
years. He was the brother in law of Victor ADLER.
(v)
Josi had another cousin, Henrietta SZOLD (1860-1945) who was
an American. In 1856 her parents immigrated to Baltimore, Maryland USA. Henrietta's
mother was Sophie
SCHAAR (b. 1839), [the sister of Josi BRAUN’s mother] married in
1839 Benjamin SZOLD (1829-1902), the son of Baruch SZOLD (from Nemiskert)
and of Chaile EUDLER.
Henrietta was the founder of the Hadaassah and the Youth Alliah.]
- Grete BRAUN (b. 18 Jan. 1889 Ungarisch Hradisch Moravia, d.
1944 Holocaust, Auschwitz) married (25 Feb. 1917 Vienna) &
divorced (1936) Dr. Emmerich BACK
(b. 17 Apr. 1884 Budapest, d. 17 Nov. 1957 Vienna)
- Dr. Friedrich Fritz BRAUN (b.
21 Nov. 1889 Ungarisch Hradisch Moravia, d. 7 Sep. 1956 Haifa, Israel)
married (4 Aug. 1920) to his cousin
Dr. Louise SCHLEIFFER
(b. 26 Oct. 1890 Vienna, d. 1980 Vienna)
- Susanne Susi BRAUN (b. 1 Apr. 1927 Vienna, d. 1971
Haifa, Israel) m. & div. Paul HABER
- Ernst BRAUN (b. 4 Jan. 1891 Ungarisch Hradisch Moravia, d. 13 Sep.
1915 World War One, Russia)
- Kurt BRAUN (b. 4 Apr. 1895 Ungarisch Hradisch Moravia, d. 25 June
1976 Bristol, UK) m. (May 1920) to Margarethe Louise POLLAK
(b. 8 July 1898 Bruenn, Czechoslovakia, d. 14 Jan. 1981 Bristol, UK)
- Dr. Herta BRAUN
(b. 30 Nov. 1921 Ungarisch Hradisch Moravia, d. 22 May 2002 UK) m.
& div. (1982) to
Dr. Ernest SAPHIER
(b. 4 Aug. 1918 Slovakian, d. 26 June 1988 UK)
- Dr. Ernst BRAUN m. to Hanna FREUND
- Dr. Doris Paula BRAUN (d. 2011) m. to
Gonzalo
PARRA
- Camilo PARRA-BRAUN
- Daniel PARRA-BRAUN
- Nicolas Parra-BRAUN
- Gabriella Gaby Sella BRAUN
Ernst BRAUN remarried Dorothea Doris LUTTENBERGER